Anti-tailgater device

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Put this in your back window... and yes, TRS sells 'em.

 

[02RangerXLT]

Put this in your back window... and yes, TRS sells 'em.

Nice... just might have to get me one of them...

 

[Ranger Rookie]

stupid is as stupid does

Ok. I will be a voice of reason here.

In Colorado last year a guy went to jail for life for hitting his brakes in front of a tailgater. He caused the guy to go rolling through the median and his vehicle landed on an oncoming vehicle and killed that driver. Thanks to witnesses this guy went away with TWO life sentences for being an ass.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/12138736/detail.html

Some of the following is from a drivers education handbook.
Looks like some of us need to review this.

The best thing to do is get the tailgater safely around you. Do this by slowing slightly below the normal flow of traffic speed. This allows him more room to pass, and your slower speed makes it easier for him to do so.
This is what you WANT. Think about the frame of mind of someone that is tailgating you. If not at first, very soon the tailgater gets impatient, frustrated, and maybe angry.

Do you want him behind you, where you have no control over his actions? Tailgaters typically exercise poor judgment and endanger you and others trying to pass when it is not safe. If they still cannot pass after you've slowed a bit, then change lanes or pull off to the side and let them go by.

Don't hit the brakes suddenly, and do not tap your brake lights to warn the other driver to back off. Slamming on the brakes to get rid of the tailgater is against the law almost everywhere, not to mention that some folks get shot for doing it.

Tapping your brake lights to get an impatient driver to back off is also not a good tactic. While not illegal when you tap your brake lights without actually braking, you are training the other driver not to take your brake lights seriously.

Let's say you can't get the guy off your tail and he follows you for several blocks. If something requiring immediate response happens and you actually do hit the brakes, the tailgater's reaction time may be longer because he is thinking you are just tapping your brake lights again -- and by tailgating he is already too close for comfort.

So...

For all of you testosterone laden brothers out there, just let it go. Your lives are worth more than your egos. Better to arrive safe at your destination, you have a lot of people out there who are amazing and great people when you meet them in person, but behind the wheel they just want to kill you.

And Never ever Pull this kind of crap if you have your kids in the vehicle!!! I know that you all already know most of this and are just frustrated at the mindlessnes of tailgating @ss holes. It pisses me of everytime, but over my 25 years behind the wheel I now know better. I drive a big 1 ton service truck for work and always leave a huge space between me and the cars in front of me due to stopping distance and Mass. What pisses me of are the people that pull into my stopping area when trafic come to a quick slowdown. I could care less about the guy on my @ss as my rear bumper is made out of 1/2 steel plate. He will get shruged off like a bad case of fleas. Nothing that can't be fixed by a can of spray paint. But in my cars my family comes first, let them pass and waste gas.

Mike.

Blue Balls is soooo right. You can fight fire with fire, but you can't fight stupid with stupid or crazy with crazy. Drive defensively.

 

[heptofite]

eaters

there's nothing wrong with eating a burger while driving.

 

[superdave1984]

Just let off the gas and let the vehicle you are driving slow down to a crawl. Don't hit the brakes, just let off the gas completely.

 

[purecountry]

when i get a tail gated i like to dump my chew bottle out the window. that usually gives them the hint while they back off and hit the wipers.

 

[4x4fun]

there is a very easy way i use to stop tailgaters. lets say your doing 50 and some one is riding you. speed up to about 52. and give them the finger out of your side window clear as day for them. From the kinda people i have around me; all there testostron makes them want to give it to you back. soo the try and pull up next to you to tell you to f off. as they swing around you, slow from 52ish to 48 ish and they go right on by.

 

[adsm08]

there's nothing wrong with eating a burger while driving.

I love burgers.

What was this thread about again?

 

[88_Eddie]

So I was thinking about going to the parts store and getting one of those push-button momentary contact switches they have, and wire it into the brake lights like you do for the engine speed signal with and aftermarket tach.

The brake pedal will still turn the lights on, but I can also make them come on without actually hitting the brakes and letting these morons get closer to me.

Thoughts?

too much work.....a properly extended middle finger followed by a hearty F**K YOU at the next stop light will take care of most tailgaters

another thing i like to do is turn on the mister on my windshield wipers

 

[heptofite]

I love burgers.

What was this thread about again?

guy i quoted lumped people who eat while driving in with tailgaters as "dangerous assholes"

i was simply disputing that.

 

[straycat]

Ok, so I hate tailgaters. In the last week before the bad weather hit the North East the bed of our S-10 almost got smashed in by two different idiots driving too fast and tailgating us. I made the first one piss all over the interior of his Ridgeline by brake-checking him while he was paying attention to his phone.

The next guy was just an ass, in his lifted dodge ram 2500 who obviously thought it was funny to play with someone who drives a compact pickup (even though the wife was driving), so when she hit the brakes he sped up. He also almost rolled his truck into the oncoming lane of a I-180 when he finally had to swing around us, and had I been driving the Ranger which sits a few inches higher and has a stronger body I'd have tried to force him into the barrier and actually make him roll because he deserved it. Anyway...

Actually hitting the brakes hard in a situation like that is dangerous. When you do that you are definitely increasing the chance for an accident. Most states consider whoever has the front end damage to be at fault, but I'd just as soon not get rear-ended, which incidentally is the same reason that I'm trying to get these idiots off my tail.

So I was thinking about going to the parts store and getting one of those push-button momentary contact switches they have, and wire it into the brake lights like you do for the engine speed signal with and aftermarket tach.

The brake pedal will still turn the lights on, but I can also make them come on without actually hitting the brakes and letting these morons get closer to me.

Thoughts?

Don't worry. I hate this more than anything!!!! My wife hates it when I slow down or tap on the brake due to an idiot tailgater. They are so stupid because they think they can intimidate you into going faster or moving over so that can make an illegal pass. I don't give in,,,,,,I do get even once in awhile.
Last week I had one idiot in a BMW SUV that was about two inches off my bumper on my 99 Ranger. It was pouring down rain. I just slammed on the brakes and watched in my rear view mirror as the idiot spun off into the median. I know he screwed up that BMW because there is one hell of a raised curb that he hit. Assssshole!!!!! I know this is not a good idea everyone...but sometimes if you don't do something the tailgater will cause YOU do have an accident and they won't give a rat's ass about you.

 

[4x4fun]

when i get a tail gated i like to dump my chew bottle out the window. that usually gives them the hint while they back off and hit the wipers.

my buddy chews......this is done best in the middle of the summer, cause more people are likly to have there windows open.

 

[Spitfire1975]

Maybe I don't have a strong survival instinct, but I say let 'em hit me. They will get nailed with criminal negligence and if I make it through the ensuing wreck I can sue the everloving shit out of 'em. And if I don't make it through the wreck, my family can sue the everloving shit out of them. Wrongful death cases have nice payouts.

Doesn't work when my kid is in the truck though. Then I just get pissed and get out of the way, dreaming of the day I don't have to live in a heavily populated area surrounded by hermaphrodite dick wads.

 

[adsm08]

Don't worry. I hate this more than anything!!!! My wife hates it when I slow down or tap on the brake due to an idiot tailgater. They are so stupid because they think they can intimidate you into going faster or moving over so that can make an illegal pass. I don't give in,,,,,,I do get even once in awhile.
Last week I had one idiot in a BMW SUV that was about two inches off my bumper on my 99 Ranger. It was pouring down rain. I just slammed on the brakes and watched in my rear view mirror as the idiot spun off into the median. I know he screwed up that BMW because there is one hell of a raised curb that he hit. Assssshole!!!!! I know this is not a good idea everyone...but sometimes if you don't do something the tailgater will cause YOU do have an accident and they won't give a rat's ass about you.

I remember this now.

I started this after I'd almost gotten run over twice by people going at least 40 MPH over the speed limit because I was going 55 and they were going about 95 and not paying attention.

 

[Colin]

guy i quoted lumped people who eat while driving in with tailgaters as "dangerous assholes"

i was simply disputing that.

Well depending on how clueless they are when they drive they could be. But I eat and drive